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  • New Approaches to Openness - Beyond Open Educational Resources

    This chapter begins by discussing the characteristics of social and participatory media and considers their implications for learning, teaching and research. The notion of openness is then considered and different facets of open practices across learning, teaching and research are considered. more

  • OER Adaptation and Reuse Across Cultural Contexts in Sub Saharan Africa: Lessons from TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa)

    Over a period of three years a number of International and African based institutionscollaborated to design and create a set of Open Educational Resources (OERs) to support school based teacher education as part of the TESSA project. Writing the materials drew on case studies, experiences and existing resources from across the region using a highly structured template. These TESSA OERs were... more

  • OER in Developing Countries: Towards Meaningful Partnership

    A keynote address by Catherine Ngugi at the Open Learning Conference 2009 in Nottingham, UK, November 2009. The focus of this address was that OER presents an opportunity to overhaul how we think about and practice higher education - and how education as a collaborative endeavour - a cornerstone of the OER movement - is far more likely to result in success than going it alone. The video... more

  • Access to Open Educational Resources: Report of a UNESCO OER Community Discussion

    UNESCO's international Community on Open Educational Resources has been active since 2005. It connects some 900 individuals in 109 countries to share information and discuss issues surrounding the production and use of Open Educational Resources ? web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research. The community returned to the issue of access... more

  • Building Open Educational Resources from the Ground Up: South Africa's Free High School Science Texts

    Partly because the development of open educational resources (OER) is a relatively new field that is just now receiving more widespread attention and study, there have been few opportunities to share knowledge across program, organizational and national boundaries. This paper presents a study of the OER project Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) as the first of a series of steps meant to... more

  • OER Africa Communities of Practice

    Numerous studies have found that people form relationships or communities through informal networks based on their common backgrounds or where they are located. The word community has become very popular, with every group sharing an interest on a website today being called a community. However, not everything called a community is a Community of Practice (CoP). A neighbourhood, for instance... more

  • Communities of Practice with Nancy White. CoP Series.

    This is a series of blogs on Communities of Practice written by Nancy White a regular keynote speaker on the conference circuit and expert practitioner. The blogs are fun, but give a really good idea of setting up and managing CoPs. more

  • Communities of Practice and Virtual Learning Communities: Benefits, Barriers and Success Factors

    A virtual Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals who share a domain of interest about which they communicate online. The practitioners share resources (for example experiences, problems and solutions, tools, methodologies). Such communication results in the improvement of the knowledge of each participant in the community and contributes to the development of the knowledge... more

  • 'Communities of Practice' and the Social Process of Knowledge Creation: Towards a New Vocabularly for Making Sense of Organizational Learning

    The idea of knowledge as the source of competitive advantage has been celebrated in the management literature for some time. However, our understanding of how knowledge emerges and develops in the actual work practices is still relatively limited. The argument of this paper is that an approach called ‘communities of practice’ offers a relatively coherent view of the social processes of... more

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